New “Inception” Trailer Lets Us All Know What’s Going On

A new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi flick Inception is out, and it finally gives a bigger dose of insight into what the movie’s is about beyond crimes happening in brains. Video after the jump:

The big new thing this trailer shows us is the entire Ocean’s 11 style band of thieves that Leonardo Dicaprio puts together, and how important their individual roles are. I think it’s intensely cool what Nolan is doing here; wherein a normal heist movie you have lame ole’ guys like ‘the muscle’ and ‘the locksmith’, here they have people building dreams to inhabit and imagining big, cool guns to use in them.

The look of the dreams is also very intriguing. Everything looks perfectly real, but just a little off; that shot of Leo and Ellen Page walking along a river, only to see an impossible row of buildings in the distance, is coolly subtle and eerily dreamlike.

Inception hits theaters on July 16th, and might single-handedly succeed in pulling us out of this nasty summer funk we’ve been mired in.

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